Deep Impact (1998)
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
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#110125
Selects: How Extinction Works
"It was a huge hit, deep impact, and Armageddon came out on the same day basically."
— Josh
Discussing 1990s disaster films that were released around the same time about extinction-level events.
Nov 1, 2025
#090118
SYSK Selects: How Patents Work
"But think about deep impact in Armageddon. Let's go back to that well."
— Josh
Josh uses these two disaster films as an example of how two movies can have similar premises without necessarily involving copyright infringement.
Sep 1, 2018
#111114
How Patents Work
"think about deep impact in Armageddon"
— Josh
Used as an example of how two similar movie concepts can exist simultaneously
Nov 11, 2014
#102114
How Extinction Works
"It was a huge hit, deep impact, and Armageddon came out on the same day basically."
— Josh
Josh mentioned these movies as examples of how people were nervous about extinction-level events around the turn of the millennium.
Oct 21, 2014
#100313
Can NASA predict natural disasters?
"Although that is deep impact on Armageddon."
— Chuck
Chuck mentioned Deep Impact alongside Armageddon as movies about asteroid threats that aren't too far off from reality.
Oct 3, 2013
Cast
Robert Duvall
Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
Téa Leoni
Jenny Lerner
Elijah Wood
Leo Biederman
Vanessa Redgrave
Robin Lerner
Morgan Freeman
President Tom Beck
Maximilian Schell
Jason Lerner
James Cromwell
Alan Rittenhouse
Ron Eldard
Oren Monash
Jon Favreau
Gus Partenza
Laura Innes
Beth Stanley
Mary McCormack
Andrea Baker
Richard Schiff
Don Biederman
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